NATURAL SALMON PASS, 



The Frontispiece is a Lithographed Drawing of a natural Salmon 

 ladder at Oughterard Falls, in Connemara, over which thousands of 

 Salmon pass every year. The fall is less than one foot in five the 

 fish leap from a deep hole at the foot of the fall, and by a succession 

 of short leaps from irregular resting places, at the backs of prominent 

 rocks, by which the current is split, they are enabled to pass up step 

 by step, to their breeding grounds. The stream is about 30 feet in 

 width, and has three lakes above the falls, with various tributaries in 

 which the Salmon deposit their ova. 



